Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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ANION EXCHANGE RESINS PREPARED FROM CROSSLINKED
POLYSTYRENESULFONYLCHLORIDE
The Disclosure
The present invention is directed to a novel group of
polystyrenyl and substituted polystyrenyl sulfonyl chloride
resin intermediates, the polystyrenyl sulfonamide anion ~
exchange resins derived therefrom, and the novel methods of
preparing the same. In a preferred aspect the invention
relates to polystyrenyl sulfonamide anion exchange resins
having a styrene (substituted styrene)/divinylbenzene (DVB)
backbone and a method of chlorosulfonating styrene/DVB copoly-
mers using a chlorinating agent to avoid the presen~e of
undesirable sulfonic acid groups in the intermediate copolymer.
The bulk of conventional strong and weak base anion
exchange resins are presently commercially prepared by
chloromethylation of styrene/DVB copolymers followed by amin-
ation. This process requires the use of chloromethyl ether or
bis-chloromethyl ether, which compounds have recently been
suspected of having carcinogenic properties, promoting re-
searchers to investigate other modes of synthesis of anionexchange resins. One
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route indicated by the prior art, but deficient in
results, involves chlorosulfonation of the resin matrix
followed by amidation. U.S. 2,867,611 describes the
reaction of uncrosslinked polystyrene su]fonic acid with
thionyl chloride (SOC12) to prepare the corresponding
sulfonyl chlorides of polystyrene homopolymer resins,
which products can be further reacted with primary or
secondary amines or ammonia. The only exemplary
elucidation of this broad disclosure of amidat;on is in
Example 7 wherein polystyrene polysulfonyl chloride is
treated with anhydrous ammonia gas to yield polystyrene
polysulfonamide, a resin which is not an operable anion
exchange material due to the absence of active ;on
exchange sites.
In U.S. 2,900,352 is disclosed a method of making an
anion exchange resin by reacting a linear polymer of
styrene with a complex of chlorosulfonic acid, an alcohol
and formaldehyde to introduce active side chains and
cause crosslinking of the polymer, followed by
amination. The presence of formaldehyde and an alcohol
appears to result in formation of a polyvinyl benzyl
chloride resin instead of a polystyrenyl sulfonyl
chloride resin. Accordingly, the fi~nal products are
similar to conventional resins prepared by
chloromethylation techniques, i.e., they have a methylene
group attaching the anion exchanging group to the
aromatic ring of the polymer.
Czech 120,156 (Chem. Abs. vol. 68, 69699f, 1968)
teaches the chlorosulfonation of a suspension copolymer
of styrene-divinylbenzene, followed by treatment with
hydrazine hydrate to produce a macroreticular sorbent for
keto compounds. U.S.S.R. 291,928 (Chem. Abs. vol. 75,
21715a, 1971) teaches the reaction of sulfochlorinated
crosslinked styrene copolymers with hydroxylamine. The
products resulting are not anion exchange resins.
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S. Goldstein et al. "Synthetic Aspects of Selective
Ion Exchangers", Israel Journal of Chemistry, vol. 10,
1972, pp. 893-898, treat chlorosulfonated, crosslinked
polystyrene with guanidine and dimethyl amine. The
5 guanidine product resin would be unstable if used under
normal conditions for an anion exchange resin. The
dimethyl amine product resin would have no active sites
for ion exchange.
U.S. 2,906,715 (corresponding to British
10 Specification 795,698) teaches the chlorosulfonation of
styrene polymers followed by reaction with ammonia or a
primary or secondary amine or polyamine. Compared to the
anion exchange resins of this invention, the weak base
ion exchange products prepared according to this prior
15 art's teachings are deficient in having an unacceptably
high rinse requirement due to (1) presence of primary and
secondary amine groups, (2) substantial quantities of
sulfonic acid groups. Ion exchange resins when produced
using polyamines with more than a single primary or
20 secondary amine group, such as in U.S. Patent 2,906,715,
have inferior kinetic performance. It is believed that
the kinetic deficiency is due largely to the fact that
the res;ns disc~osed by said reference have a high
percentage of the so-called "2:1 reaction" product, that
25 is, product resulting from the reaction of two amine
groups from one polyamine molecule with two sulfonyl
chlor;de groups on different aromatic rings of the
polymer. In contrast, the resins of the present
invention have no appreciable product of the 2:1 reaction
30 type.
I have now discovered a nove~ and highly effective
class of anion exchangers, novel intermediates for
producing the same and novel processes for the
manufacture of such intermediates and anion exchangers.
35 The novel anion exchange resins of this invention have
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the general formula:
n
(S02R)a
( 3 )b
wherein R is selècted from po'yamines and quaternary
ammonium salts, in either case containing a single
primary or secondary amine group which is l;.nked to the
sulfonyl group of the polymer, and also at least one
functional ion exchange group selected from tertiary
amine and quaternary ammonium groups and mixtures
thereof, and "a" is a number equal to or less than 2,
preferably about 0.7 to 2.0 and more preferably 0.9 to
1.5 and "b" ls a number from 0 to about 0.4, norma~ly
0.001 to 0.4. Although in general it is desirable to
have the anion res;n free of sulfonic acid groups, it may
be desirable in some applications, because of improved
resin performance or a lower manufacturing cost, for one
resin to have a controlled amount of sulfonic groups.
This can be accomplished in either of two ways, either by
lower the amount of chlorinating agent or by reducing the
quantity of amidating agent. The expression ~ 1rn is
used above to denote a polymer chain and for the same
purpose elsewhere throughout the specificati.on and in the
claims. Other noninterfering substituents derived from
the monovinyl monomer(s) used in preparing the polymer
backbone may also be attached to the aromatic ring of the
polymer.
In general, my process utilizes the ubiquitous
crosslinked polystyrene, as defined hereinafter,
well-known n ion exchange resi.n as starting material,
but deviates from the usual chloromethylation process in
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that the crosslinked polystyrene is subjected to
ch~orosulfonation before being functionalized with an
amine. A typical simplified reaction is as follows:
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r ~
5~-O ~ 6~
W 3 3 ~
D 3 ~_
1-- Z; t/~
(D p~ ~ O
w ~ Q w
3 3 ~
--~ (D Q
Q
Q 1-- 1--
O C
1~)
r~) I~ (D Q
+ 0~ ~3t
Q ~ 3
3 ~t
P~ /
3~ 3 0
w ~ Q
/'=\ ~ +
O ~D O W ~\ r~
3 ~ 3 ~
0~ 3 P~ '~ Q
~ ~ ~ (D ~n 3 w
p7 ~ ~ 3 0
Q
Q ~
W 1~ Q
1'~
3 ~ ~
Q Q
~ .
Q +
I--
I Q
W~ o ~i.
W C
ro 3 P~
~ 1 3
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For convenience in describing the present invention,
the resin backbone ls denoted by the terms "polystyrenyl"
or "polystyrene" and the chemical structure formula of
pure polystyrene is used to represent such backbone.
However, these terms and formulas are intended to embrace
crosslinked polymers of styrene as well as related
polymers of the other well-known monovinyl aromatic
monomers such as vinyl toluene, ethyl vinyl benzene,
chlorostyrene, vinyl naphtha]ene and the like, and
mixtures thereof. Alternative]y herein the term
"substituted polystyrene" is intended to relate to
polymers derived from the monomers related to styrene
structurally. Polymers from these other monomers or
mixtures of comonomers with or without styrene exhibit
essentially the same performance characteristics and
hence advantage as a po]ystyrene produced from pure
styrene monomer, when chlorosulfonated and amidated by
the method of the invention. To illustrate, a comonomer
mixture of 50% styrene and 50% ethyl vinyl benzene may be
polymerized together with a minor amount of polyvinyl
benzene crosslinker to furnish a "polystyrenyl" backbone
which may be chlorosulfonated and amidated to yield the
novel products of this invention. Accordingly, the
backbone resin of this invention shown as a
styrene-derived polymer in the formulas, may be derived
from monomers of styrene or related monomers having
substituents on the aromatic ring, all of which are
generally known in the ion exchange art as having about
equivalent properties and performance. Styrene is,
nevertheless, the preferred monovinyl monomer.
The resins of this invention may be useful in any
conventional resin application. Typical applications
include water treatment (deionization, deacidification,
desalination, silica removal), hydrometallurgy (metals
recovery such as uranium, zinc, silver), food processing
(sugar decolorization, and deashing, decidification of
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edible oils), reaction catalysis (ester formation), waste
treatment (iron cyanide removal, dye removal), medical
(pH control agent), deodorant additive, and analytical
chemistry (chromatograpn separations). These resins will
also work in mixed beds such as a Stratabed (mixture of
weak base resin and strong base resins) or a Monobed
(strong base resin and a strong acid resin).
The invention will now be flescribed following the
flow of the typical reaction (I) above with all
percentages by weight unless otherwise indicated.
Chlorosulfonation by the known method (see U.S.
Patent 2,906,715, mentioned above) using chlorosulfonic
acid alone produces intermediates undesirably high in
sulfonic acid groups (-SO3H) which are nonreactive with
amidating agents and further result in high rinse
requirements in the weak base anion resins. I have found
that the number of sulfonic acid groups can be minimized
substantia]ly by util;zing an additional reagent during
chlorosulfonation, which reagent for convenience herein,
shall be termed a "chlorinating agent". Although the
mechanism by which sulfonic acid groups are avoided has
not been proved, it is possible that the sulfonic acid
groups result from liberated sulfuric acid according to
the following equilibrium:
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, ^ H
H
~ C~
W ~R
X W
~0~0
6~
O W
~_ +
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It appears that equilibrium may be shifted to the right
in equation II(B) by use of a chlorinating agent to react
with the sulfuric acid liberated in the reaction.
Another possibility is that the chlorinating agent reacts
directly with the sulfonic acid group to form sulfonyl
chloride groups.
Ch~orinating agents useful by the present invention
are those materials which can react with the acid
liberated or the sulfonic acid group. Typical
chlorinating agents include thionyl chloride, chlorine,
su'fur dichloride, su~fur monochloride, su'furyl
chloride, phosphorus trichloride, carbon tetrachloride,
phosphorus pentachloride, methyl chloroform, phosphorus
oxychloride, and the like.
The method of chlorosulfonation taught herein but
utilizing a chlorinating agent also produces an increase
in the number of sulfonylchloride groups attached to the
crosslinked polystyrene. Again, while the mechanism is
not certain, the chlorinating agent appears to shift
equilibrium of the chlorosulfonation reaction, perhaps by
limiting the concentration of released acid. At any
rate, I have found that my method preferably yields
between 0.90 and 2.0 sulfonylchloride groups per aromat;c
ring, significantly above the approximately 0.7 to 0.97
groups obtainable by reaction under the same conditions
with chlorosulfonic acid alone (with undesirable
sulfonylic acid group at about 0.05 to 0.2).
Amidation of the polystyrene sulfonylchloride resin
produces a weak base ion exchange resin or, in the case
of a protected amine reactant, a precursor thereof. To
obtain the high~y useful anion resins of the ;nvention it
is important that the amidating agent be a polyamine
which contains one, but on'y one, primary or seconday
amine group, preferably a secondary amine group (when
making a weak base resin), or attaching the polyamine to
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the sulfonyl group of the polystyrenyl sulfonylchloride.
Additional primary or secondary amine groups in the
polyamine can lead to secondary crosslinking and hence
inferior kinetic performance, capacity, etc. Secondary
crosslinking may be illustrated with a composition
derived from diethylenetriamine
(NH2CH2CH2NHCH2CH2NH2) as the amidating agent
as follows:
III
)n (-~'' ~ )n
2 l2 ~
NHCH2CH2NCH2CH2NH2
A polyamine having two or more primary or secondary
amine groups may, however, be used as the amidating agent
by the present invention if it is chemically possible to
protect or block all but one of said groups. Using the
diethylenetriamine illustrated above, it is possible to
form a urea by known methods, thereby inactivating two of
the three reactive groups:
IV J ~
NH2CH2CH2NHCH2CH2NH2 ~ H~ NICH2CH2NH2
CH2 C~H2
Anion exchange resins produced by amidating with this
blocked amine and thereafter unblocking the amine groups
have been found to have about 35% higher weight capacity
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for anion exchange than resins derived directly from
diethylenetriamine (see III above).
Other urea-type protected amines include, for
example:
R
~ C\
H~ NCH2CH2NH2
1 l
CH2 CH2
\ CH2/
VI
C
HN NCH2CH2CH2NH2
2--CH2/ CH2
Another procedure for protecting primary amine groups
(other than the group needed) involves the preliminary
formation of an imine, such as
VII
R R "
>CNCH2CH2NHCH2CH2N = C ~
R' R " '
or
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VIII
CH2-CH2 R
HN\ NCH2CH2N = C <
~ CH2-CH2 R'
wherein R, R', R", and R"' are independently selected
from hydrogen and substituted or unsubstituted straight
or branched chain lower alkyl or aromatic radicals.
Suitable substituents are those which will not either
interfere with imine formation or the amidation reaction.
The protected amine is unblocked after amidation and
thereafter subjected to reductive methylation, if
necessary, to substitute alkyl groups for any hydrogens
in the amine groups still containing hydrogen. The
above-disclosed imines may be unblocked, for example, by
treatment with l molar HCl at 50C. for about 2 hours.
The urea-blocked amines shown above may be unblocked, for
example, by hydrolysis with aqueous caustic (40% NaOH) at
120C. Reductive methylation is needed after hydrolysis
when using blocked amines such as the imine of formula
VII above. This may be accomplished by treating an
aqueous slurry of the hydrolyzed amine resin with
formaldehyde (e.g., 37% aqueous sol'n) followed by formic
acid.
The polyamine, in addition to the single reactive
primary or secondary amine group must contain one or more
other amine group, specifically teetiary amine groups or
unreactive (protected) amine groups which may be
subsequently converted to tertiary amine groups. ~he
presence of basic nitrogens bearing hydrogens, i.e.,
primary or secondary amines in the final anion exchange
resin results in unsatisfactory performance, including
high rinse requirement for the resin and oxidative
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instability. To produce strongly basic anion resins, the
amine groups of a weakly basic resin are converted by
well-known techniques to quaternary ion exchange
functional groups (see equation I above).
A novel optional process for producing strongly
basic resins or resins with mixtures of weak base and
strong base functional groups involves a multi-step
reaction which may be illustrated by the following
simplified equation (starting from the reaction product
of polystyrenyl sulfonylchloride with 3-dimethylamino-
propylamine)(DMAPA):
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~ \
o
X
Q
w
/~ ,
Q Q
W W
I
t~ +
Q
O
p~ tD X
O 1-- O~
3 1 6~
Q~ Q
X I ::C
w Q W
l_ Q W
0~ ~ I
(D ~ \
o
X
Q
~C
W
Q--~--Q
w Q W
~ ,
Q ~C
1~ r~)
~0~
Q~ ~ Q
w Q W
~C
W
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This process may be used to produce a variety of
quaternary resins or those with mixtures of quaternary
and tertiary amine groups. For example, dimethylamino-
ethylchloride may be substituted for the quaternization
reactant in the above reaction to yield a mixed weak
base-strong base ion exchange resin. The reaction is
generally performed at about 25 - 100C. and a pH of 7.5
- 10.0 with water or methanol or mixtures thereof used as
solvent. To neutralize any acid formed, a base is
desirably used in the reaction mixture.
The novel anion exchange resins disclosed herein
prepared by the preferred process of the invention have
physical and performance properties generally superior to
the chloromethylether (CME)-derlved resins of the prior
art and hence constitute a significant advance in the
field of ion exchange. Both gel and macroporous (MR)
strong base resins based on DMAPA have column capacities
for deacidification and desilicization with 5% of
commercial grades of CME resins, when at 65% of the
weight capacity of CME resins. The utilization of active
sites in the sulfonamide amine (SAA) resins is thus
significantly higher than conventional CME resins. The
thermal stability of SAA strong base resins is not
detectably different from conventional type 1 strong base
resins at 50C. after 84 days. At both 50C. and 90C.
the SAA resins are significantly more stable than both
type II CME based resins and acrylic strong base resins.
The hydrolytic stability of the sulfonamide linkage ln
both acidic and basic media is excellent. When prepared
using a preferred polyamine, the SAA resins are capable
of as much as 20 - 30% higher column capacities than
conventional prior art resins. In addition to greater
utilization of anion exchange sites, the SAA resins have
two physical characteristics which distinguish them from
conventional resins, namely, (1) higher physical
stability and (2) higher density (2 - 7%).
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In general, the polyamines which may be used in the
amidation reaction are those polyamines containing a
single reactive primary or secondary amine group and at
least one other functional amine group or a precursor
thereof. The unprotected polyamines fall within the
fol.lowing general classes:
Weak Base Resins:
R~ N-(CH2)n-N CR"
R"
R~ N_(CH2)n~N~(CH2)m~N ~R"
I / R~'
R? N-(CH2)n~N~(CH2)m N ~Rn~
R" I R~ R
R ?N-(cH2)n-N-(cH2)m-N(cH2)o-N-(cH2)pN <
R""'
wherein each of R, R', R", R"', R"", and R""' are
independently selected from lower alkyl or aromatic
groups, but preferably are methyl or ethyl groups and n,
15 m, o, and p are whole numbers from 2 to lO,preferably 2
to 6.
Strong Base Resins:
r~
R' - N -~(CH2)n ~ N C R"' (optionally hydrogen)
X R"
R'N ~(CH2)n~N~(CH2)m- N~- R""
X~R" X3 R'' " '
R R'''
R'N - (CH2)o- N - (CH2)m-N - R""' (optiona~y hydrogen)
X~R" ~R""
wherein R, R', R", R"', R"", and R""' are i.ndependently
selected from lower alkyl or aromatic groups, but
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preferably are methyl or ethyl groups, n and m are whole
numbers from 2 to 'O,preferably 2 to 6, and o is a whole
number from 3 to 10, preferably 3 to 6. Compounds
wherein o is 2 in the preceeding formula are generally
thermally unstable. The counter-ion of the quaternary
nitrogen which may be, for instance, halogen, hydroxyl,
S04=, acetate or the like, is represented as X .
Illustrative of the unprotected polyamines are:
3-dimethylaminopropylamine (DMAPA)
1,1,5-trimethyliminobispropylamine (TIBP)
1,1,7,7-tetramethyldiethylenetriamine (TMDT)
l,l,9,9-tetramethyliminobispropylamine (TMIP)
5,12-dimethyl-1,5,12-triazatridecane (DTT)
N,N-dimethylethylenediamine
N,N,N'-trimethylethylenediamine
N,N,N'-trimethyl-1,3-propanediamine
2,5-dimethyl-2,5,8-triazaoctane
1,1,4-trimethyldiethylenetriamine
2,6-dimethyl-2,6,9-triazanonane
2,6-dimethyl-2,6,10-triazadecane
2,7-dimethyl-2,7,1]-triazaundecane
2,5-dimethyl-2,5,9-triazanonane
N-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)piperazine
N-(2-aminoethyl)-N'-(methyl) piperazine
The preferred polyamines are those having relatively
high density of amine groups and shorter alkyl or
alkylene groups, or said another way, the maximum number
of functional groups for a given molecular weight.
Typical of preferred amines are
3-dimethylaminopropylamine (DMAPA), 1,1,9,9 tetra-
methyliminobispropylamine (TMIP) and aminoethylethylene
urea (a protected amine).
The polystyrenyl sulfonylchloride resin
(intermediate) and the sulfonamide ion exchange resins
derived from the same are hard infusible copolymers
normally produced by suspension polymerization of monomer
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mixtures as discrete spherical particles or beads.
Depending upon the method of polymerization, such resins
may be either in "gel" (microporous) or macroreticular
(macroporous) forms. These distinct physical forms,
however, do not substantially influence the reactions of
the present invention. Further, I have established that
chlorosulfonation and amidation as taught herein may be
accomplished by the same general procedures on both forms
with only possibly minor differences in reaction kinetics
due to the obvious differences in porosity.
The polymeric backbone of the ion exchange resins of
the invention and intermediate, therefore, are
crosslinked using any of the various crosslinking
materials known heretofore. Typically, however, the
crosslinking is produced by using a minor amount, e.g.,
1.0% to 20.0%, of a polyvinyl comonomer in the
polymerization of the styrene monomer. In general, the
crosslinking monomer will comprise between about 1.0% and
50.0~ of the monomer mixture, preferably between about
1.0% and 20.0% and more preferably between about 1.0% and
10.0% of the total monomer mixture. Among the
crosslinking polyvinyl monomers useful for preparing the
polystyrenyl backbone are divinyl benzene,
trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate, ethylene glycol
dimethacrylate, divinyl toluene, trivinyl benzene,
divinyl chlorobenzene, diallyl phthalate, and the like.
In commercial applications divinyl benzene is perhaps the
cross'.inker of choice today and hence a preferred
material. Polyfunctional crosslinkers containing ether
linkages and other groups known to be unstable to
chlorosulfonic acid are, of course, to be avoided.
Other than considerations of cost, solvents are not
required, although preferred, in the chlorosulfonation
and amidation reaction. The use of excess chlorosulfonic
acid or polyamine obviates the need for solvent.
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In the chlorosulfonation reaction solvents may be
used which do not react with chlorosulfonic acid or any
chlorinating agent present. Illustrative of such
solvents are the aliphatic hydrocarbons such as n-octane,
n-nonane, and n-decane and the chlorinated saturated
hydrocarbons such as ethylene dichlor;fle (EDC) and
1,2-propylene dichloride. The chlorinated materials are
preferred since they tend to swell the resin and thereby
aid reaction kinetics.
Chlorinated hydrocarbons and ketones are suitable
solvents for the amidation reactions, examples of the
former being ethylene dichloride, 1,2-propylene
dichloride, chlorobenzene and examples of the latter
being acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, and methyl isobutyl
ketone. The ketones are preferably used with only the
secondary amines.
In the quaternization reaction water and/or methanol
serve as the solvent. During hydrolysis and reductive
methylation of a protected amine water ;s required.
In tXe chlorosulfonation of the crosslinked
polystyrenyl backbone it is preferab]e to use at least
one mole of chlorosulfonic acid for each mole of polymer
(based on aromatic rings), preferably 1.2 to 4.0 moles.
An even greater excess of chlorosulfonic acid has been
found to be acceptable. A minimum of 0.1 moles of
chlorinating agent is needed for reduction of sulfonic
acid groups, preferably 1.2 to 4.0 moles per mole of
polymer. Further, I prefer to use either equal mole
ratios of chlorosulfonic acid anfl chlorinating agent
(e.g., = 1.0 moles of each) or any excess of
chlorosulfonic acid (e.g., = 2.0 moles) and a lesser
amount (e.g., = 0.1 moles) of the normally more expensive
chlorinating agent. At any rate, to obtain a preferred
product of the invention the sum of the two reactants
should equal at least 2.0 moles/mole of polymer,
preferably higher reactant ratios being useful to obtain
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the preferred higher levels of sulfonyl chloride
substitution in the aromatic ring.
At least one mole of amine is needed pre mole of
sulfonyl chloride in the polymer to obtain complete
amidation, preferably l.l to 2.0 moles. Large excesses
of amine have no detrimental effect on the amidation
reaction. A base may also be used to neutralize excess
HCl generated during amidation, e.g., 1 mole of NaOH or
Na2CO3/mole of HCl liberated.
In the quaternization reaction, a minimum of 1.0
mole of methyl chloride is needed per mo]e of amine
groups in the intermediate if quantitative conversion is
desired. Of course, mixed functionality in the final
product may be desired and hence smaller amounts of
methyl chloride will be required. Large excesses of
methyl chloride have not been found detrimental to the
reaction. A minor amount, e.g., 0.2 moles/mole of
product of Na2CO3 helps to eliminate any HCl produced
by hydrolysis of methyl chloride.
In the hydrolysis of protected amines (urea
protected) an aqueous 40~ NaOH solution has been found
suitable. Other concentrations will undoubtedly achieve
the same desired result. In the reductive methylation of
the hydrolyzed amine a solution of 1.0 mole of formic
acid and 1.0 mole formaldehyde per N-H hydrogen to be
repLaced is the minimum required. An excess of each is
normally desirable.
Except for reductive methylation, it is desirable to
conduct the above described reactions under a nitrogen
blanket and with a slight positive pressure. The
temperatures at which the reactions proceed will vary
depending upon the particular reactants with typical
ranges of about as set forth below:
Chlorosulfonation 20 - 60C.
Amidation Room temp. - 130C.
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Quaternization 30 - 80C.
Hydrolysis 90 - 150C.
Reductive Methylation 20 - 100C.*
*the temperature is preferably increased gradually or
incrementally over the term of several hours
Example 1 Preparation of a Weak Base Resin
A typical resin matrix material, beads of a
crosslinked gel copolymer of styrene containing 2.1%
divinyl benzene is subject to a representative
chlorosulfonation technique as follows:
Fifty grams of the copolymer and 425 ml.
1,2-dichloroethane are charged to a 3-liter, three-necked
flask equipped with mechanical stirrer, thermometer,
reflux condenser, dropping funnel, and nitrogen sparge.
The suspension is stirred for 30 minutes, and then 1560
ml. chlorosulfonic acid are added thereto over a 30
minute period. The suspension is stirred overnight at
room temperature, then washed batchwise with three 500
ml. aliquots each of dichloroethane and acetone. The
chlorosulfonated polymer is treated in a column with ten
bed volumes of acetone, ten volumes of dichloroethane,
and finally ten more bed volumes of acetone.
Three-fifths of this material, a slurry of
chlorosulfonated copolymer beads in acetone, is then
subjected to amidation by adding 156 grams of 1,1,9,9-
tetramethyliminobispropylamine thereto in a one liter
flask equipped as in the earlier reaction f'ask. There
is a 14 rise in temperature over a 30 minute period
owing to heat of reaction. The slurry is stirred
overnight at room temperature, then freed of acetone and
unreacted amine by treatment in a column with ten bed
volumes each of methanol and water. The recovery of the
weak base resin product is 159.5 g. of wet material
(S5.6% solids) or a dry yield of 88.7 g.
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Example 2 Preparation of a Strong Base Resin
79.8 grams of the wet weak base resin prepared in
accordance with Example 1 are charged with 300 ml.
deionized water to a 2-liter, stainless steel Parr bomb
equipped with heating mantle, stirrer, thermometer and
pressure gauge. The pH of the suspension is adjusted to
about lO with 2.5 g. Na2CO3, the slurry temperature
is raised to 50C., and methyl chloride is added from a
cylinder to a pressure of 50 psig, and thereupon added
incrementally over a 15 hour period to maintain
pressure. Then the mixture is cooled, the bomb flushed
with nitrogen, the resin removed and column treated with
ten bed volumes of deionized water. Recovery is l24.8 g.
of wet product (44.8% solids, 55.9 g. dry product) of a
strong base resin of the structure:
)n
SO2
N [(CH2)3N (CH3)3]2
Example 3
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Another typical resin matrix materia], bea~s of a
macroreticular copolymer of styrene with 3.0~ divinyl
benzene is chlorosulfonated substantially as in Example
l, then amidated as follows: To a suspension of
approximately 6 grams of the polystyrenyl sulfonyl
chloride resin in lO0 ml. of chlorobenzene heated to
50C. is added 32.8 g. of aminoethylene urea. The
mixture is stirred overnight at 50C. and at 100C. for
three hours, then cooled and the product washed three
times each with methanol and water. The resin is
hydrolyzed by heating at 120C. for two days with 167 ml.
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of 50% NaOH solution. The suspension is cooled and the
resin washed with deionized water, then subjected to a
reductive methylation as follows. 113.8 9. of 37%
formaldehyde solution is stirred at 30C. for 30
minutes. 81 g. formic acid is added, and the mixture is
heated to 90~C. where it is held for two hours and
cooled. The resin is washed with methanol, then 4% HCl
so]ution and finally deionized water. The product is a
weak base ion exchange resin which is produced above
according to the fol]owing reaction scheme:
S02Cl I / \
HNCH2CH2N NH
CH2CH2
)n
SO S2 Weak Base Resin
1 2 H I ICH3
HNCH2CH2NCH2CH2NH2 HNCH2CH2NCH2cH2N(cH3)2
Example 4 Preferred Chlorosulfonation Procedure
Fifty grams of a commercial grade of styrene/divinyl
15 benzene gel copolymer resin (2.1~ DVB) are added to 50
ml. of ethylene dichloride contained in a 1 liter, 3
necked flask equipped as in Example 1 after which a
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solution of 128 ml. of ClSO3H is added. An exotherm of
five degrees (25~. to 30C.) and evolution of gas are
observed. One hundred forty six mls. of thionyl ch]oride
(SOC12) is added next resulting in an exotherm to 40C.
and evolution of more gas. At this point 102 mls. of
ethylene dichloride is added to maintain fluidity. An
additional 75 ml. of ethylene dichloride is added 30
minutes later. The reaction mixture is heated over about
45 minutes to 60C. and held at that temperature
overnight. The product resin is batch washed with EDC
10 and acetone, column treated with 10 BV each of acetone,
EDC and methyl ethyl ketone, the ]atter being the solvent
for amidation.
Example 5
Following the general procedure of Example 4, above,
15 a reactant mixture of 1.2 moles of chlorosulfonic acid,
1.3 moles of thionyl chloride and 1 mole of styrene/~VB
(2.1% by weight) crosslinked copolymer heated to 60C.
and maintained overnight yields an intermediate
polystyrene sulfonyl chloride containing approximately
20 1.1 sulfonyl chloride groups per mole of resin (aromatic
groups).
Example 6
When 2.0 mo]es each of chlorosulfonic acid and
thionyl chloride are used in the process of Example 5,
25 per mole of resin, the product produced contains
approximately l.4 sulfonyl chloride groups per mole of
resin.
Example 7
When Example 6 is repeated uslng a more light~y
30 cross]inked copolymer starting material (e.g., 1%
divinylbenzene) the number of sulfony~ chloride groups
per mole of resin is increased.
Example 8
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A resin is produced in accordance with Examp~e ~
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having 5.5 ml]liequivalents sulfonic acid groups/gram of
resin (dry basis).
Example 9
A resin ;s produced in accordance with Examp]e 4
having more than 5.5 milliequivalents of sulfonic acid
groups/gram of res;n (dry basis).
Examples 10 - 23
Following the procedures disclosed hereinabove, a
group of weak base styrene/DVB resins were produced
having the properties set forth in Table 1. Examples
20-22 represent commercially available weak base resins
supplied as controls.
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were subjected to several types of cycling before the
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AEEU - aminoethylethylene urea
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Examples 24 - 39
Following the procedures disclosed herei.nabove, a
group of strong base styrene/DVB resins were produced
having the properties set forth in Table II. Examples
234, 33 and 34 represent commercially available strong
base resins, suppl.ied as controls.
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Thermal stability studies of the resins of Examples
31 and 36 compared to typical commercial acryl1c strong
base resins have proved the superiority o~ the
sulfonamide amine resins. The res;ns were heatefl in a 4%
NaOH solution at 50C. and tested for total strong base
capacity (TSB).
TABLE III
Resin Time %TSB % Loss TSB
Commercial Acrylic/DVB
10 Strong Base 0 89.5 ---
" " " 1 wk. 80.3
2 wks. 78.0 15.2
5 wks. 67.8 30.4
165 days 34.1 68.0
15 Example 31 0 lOO ---
" " 22 days 100 0
44 days 97 2.0
89 days 94 4.2
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Example 36 0 95.4 ---
" " 1 wk. 91.7
3 wks. 96.4 0.4
5 wks. 95.2 4.8
52 days 91.5 8.8
84 days 90.8 12.5
165 days 92.3 ]2.1
Commercial Styrene/DVB
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2 wks. 98.1 5.9
84 days 95.1 11.7
165 days 94 15.1
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Example 40
Forty two ml. of ethylene dichloride (EDC) and five
grams of a macroreticular styrene/DVB copolymer (3.0%
DVB) is placed in a three necked flask to swell the
copolymer for one half hour, after which 156 mls. of
chlorosulfonic acid is added. The mixture is stirred
overnight at room temperature. The polystyrenyl
sulfonylchloride resin product is batch washed three
times each with EDC and acetone then coLumn treated with
10 bed volumes (BV's) each of acetone, EDC and
chlorobenzene. The washed resin is placed in a 250 ml.
f3ask with 100 mls. of chlorobenzene and 34.2 grams of
TIBP. The mixture is heated to 130C. and held for 64
hours. After coo]ing, the resin is column treatefl with
1. each of methanol and D.I. water. The wet yield is
26.7 grams. Twenty grams of the resin and 300 mls. of
D.I. water and 1.5 grams of Na2CO3 (pH 11) were
placed in a pressure reactor heated to 50C. and
pressurized to 50 p.s.i.g. with methyl chloride and held
overnight under such conditions. The reaction is cooled,
the reactor is flushed with N2, and the resin removed
and column treated with 1 1. of D.I. water. The yield is
30.2 grams of resin, wet basis.
Example 41
The capacity of the sulfonamide amine resin of the
previous example is compared to a commercially important
Styrene/DVB strong base anion exchange resin produced by
the known CME route. The results follow:
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Table IV
Column
Flow Regenerate Capacity
Rate Level (lbs. (Kgr as
(gpm/ NaOH/ CaCO3/
SampleType Amine ft. ) ft.3) ft.
Commercial MR TMA 2 25 16.8
strong base
5 Resin(CME) 2 4 9.4
Resin of MR TIBP 2 25 20.7
Example 40
(Sulfonamide 2 4 15.1
amine)
These data show that the resins of the invention are
capable of having somewhat higher capacities than
existing commercial resins, especially at the lower
regenerant level (4 lbs. ~aOH/ft.3) which would be more
practical for industrial use.
Example 42
The purpose of this exmple is to ;llustrate
preparation of a high capacity gel weak base resin by the
process of the invention.
To a 1 liter, three necked flask are added 15 mls.
of ethylene dichloride and 38.4 mls. of chlorosulfon c
acid. Fifteen grams of a styrene/DVB resin are added to
the stirred mixture of solvent and ClSO3H. After the
reaction mixture exotherms and evolves gas, 43.8 mls. of
thionyl chloride temperature and evaluat,ion of gas. The
reaction mixture is thereafter heated slowly to 60C. and
held at that temperature for 1,6 hours. The washed resin
recovered is thereafter amidated with excess TMIP, with a
resultant exotherm from 24C. to 35C. over a 45 minute
period. The resin ;s batch washed with D.I. H2O and
then methyl alcohol, and then column treated with 10 BV s
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of MeOH and l0 BV's of H20. A yield of 90 grams (wet
basis) of resin was obtained with 5l.4% solids. The
resln is found to have an anion exchange capacity of 5.37
meq/g (dry basis).
Example 43
Following the procedures disclosed hereinabove,
resins were prepared having relatively low weight
capacities (i.e., "a" in general formula between 0.7 and
0.9). The resins were found to have good ion exchange
performance characteristics. The properties are
summarized below:
Properties
Total True
Resin Anion Strong
Exchange Base
Copolymer Amine Capacity Capacity Solids
Type Reactant (meq/g dry) (meq/g dry) %
Gel TMIP 3.57 3.47 57.8
Gel TMIP 3.41 3.32 59.3
